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poem/jobe/end of the world/asteroid

‘Extinction Event’ and Other Poetry by Carey Jobe

The Society
February 11, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle
14 Comments
. Extinction Event The sky burned black the day the giants died. A flaming mountain pierced the turquoise bay. When doomsday comes, the clever know to hide. The thunder woke a mammal safe inside the burrow...
poem/tweedie/culture/Christian/motel 6

Pastoral Calls—Part 1 of 3: Poetry by Retired Pastor James A. Tweedie

The Society
February 10, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
11 Comments
. Pastoral Calls—Part 1 of 3 . Best Friends Three boys; best friends at school; now men with wives. Between them, seven children called them “Dad.” They drank, they drove too fast and lost their...
paul/freeman/earthquake/miracle

Baby ‘Miracle’ Born in Turkey-Syria Earthquake Rubble: Poem by Paul A. Freeman

The Society
February 9, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
18 Comments
. Sonnet to a Miracle upon reading the recent news story here.  They’ve named her Miracle, that new born child found in the earthquake’s rubble, still attached to she who gave her life though hers was...
poem/frank/culture

‘That’s Where the Edge of Darkness Waits’ by Roy E. Peterson

The Society
February 9, 2023
Culture, Poetry
27 Comments
. That's Where the Edge of Darkness Waits Antifascist agitators Sprinkled among demonstrators. Demon leftist fraudulence, Tries to spread the violence. Communistic perpetrators Lowlife scum are your...
poem/bryant/australian vaccine

On Australia Announcing Fifth Covid Shot: Poems by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
February 8, 2023
Covid-19, Culture, Poetry, Satire
77 Comments
. Today Australia has announced that it will roll out a fifth dose of the Covid shot later this month. . Fat Cats and Lab Rats  The fat cats began with a scam of a plan To shame every pestilent...

Sonnet XVIII of the Sacred Rhymes by Lope de Vega, Translated by Martin Rizley

The Society
February 8, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings, Translation, Video
16 Comments
. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDSWs61Ye0E . Sonnet XVIII of the Sacred Rhymes by Lope de Vega (1562-1635) translated by Martin Rizley What have I, that you’d seek me as a friend? What interest draws...
poem/yapko/filial piety/parents

A Poem on Estrangement from Conservative Parents, by Brian Yapko

The Society
February 5, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Rondeau Redoublé
27 Comments
. A House Divided Against Itself A rondeau redoublé inspired by Dennis Prager's piece here.  In troubled times this will take place: A war of words, a cruel riposte; Deep truths that bleeding hearts won’t...
poem/bryant/free speech/pronouns

Poems on Politically Correct Churches and Language by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
February 4, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Satire, Villanelle
48 Comments
. Church Mice a sonnet corona  There is a tale that’s writ in German history. A church was passed each Sunday by a train. Its death-knell whistle blew as it flew swiftly To Hell as stricken souls shrieked...

‘Carnivore Picks a Fight and Vegan Responds’: A Dialogue by Mary Gardner

The Society
February 3, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Satire
41 Comments
. Carnivore Picks a Fight and Vegan Responds . CARNIVORE O man vegetarian with lifestyle agrarian, You’ve fallen as prey to a scam! We advise you to eat, every day, ample meat: Fish and beef, pork and...

‘The Snuff Box’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank

The Society
February 2, 2023
Beauty, Children's, Culture, Poetry
32 Comments
. The Snuff Box from a true story told in My Mother by Fr. Bernard Vaughan (1847-1922) When I was just a little boy, My mother served us shepherd’s pie. We thirteen children sniffed with joy, With statue...

‘Media’ and Other Poetry by Norma Pain

The Society
January 29, 2023
Covid-19, Culture, Poetry, Satire
18 Comments
. Media You told us lies, ignored our cries. __Your platforms you abused. You cancelled truth; you damaged youth, __And we are not amused. You took big bites from human rights, __Dissenting voices...
poem/covid/James Sale/church closed

StairWell Canto 8: ‘Covid-Priest’ by James Sale

The Society
January 28, 2023
Covid-19, Culture, Dante, Epic, Poetry
30 Comments
. Canto 8: Covid-Priest from The English Cantos Volume 2: StairWell StairWell is the Poet’s Purgatory, and as in HellWard where we met with contemporary challenges such as Brexit, so here in StairWell the...

‘Life on the Farm’ and Other Poetry by Aleta Kiefer

The Society
January 27, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
10 Comments
. Life on the Farm Daddy’s gone. Is he sleeping? For only the shell remains. I hear the cries of cicadas. I listen to their pain. Momma, why are you weeping? Did Daddy push you away? Her tears rob the...
poem/sarangi/Republic Day of India/Indian flag

A Poem for India’s Republic Day: ‘The Land of Dreams’ by Satyananda Sarangi

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January 26, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
16 Comments
. The Land of Dreams written on the eve of India's Republic Day of India which is celebrated on Jan. 26 every year Some distance far away, the drumbeats sound __And echo victories now past; __Where clouds of...
poetry/homeschooling/teachers guide

‘The Poetaster’s Plight’ by Kenneth L. Horne

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January 26, 2023
Culture, Humor, Poetry
17 Comments
. The Poetaster’s Plight Some think the poet’s work is ease: "Sit back and write it’s such a breeze;" But those that know will surely say They labor hard from day to day. They wrestle with each turn of...
poetry poem bird

‘The Stonechat Listens At The Asylum Window’ by Charles Southerland

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January 25, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
31 Comments
. The Stonechat Listens at the Asylum Window I fear I might mistranslate what you said And lose the very essence of your words. May I record you as I do the birds: The warbler, shrike and wren, red’s...
poem/music/Burns/auld lang syne

A Classical Guitar Rendition of ‘Auld Lang Syne’ for Burns Night, by Jeff Eardley

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January 25, 2023
Culture, Music, Poetry
17 Comments
. Burns Night is when Scotland's most important bard, Robert Burns (1759-1796), is celebrated, usually with the recitation of Burns' poems, the eating of haggis, and the drinking of whiskey. It occurs on...
poetry/robert burns/burns night

A Sonnet for Burns Night, by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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January 24, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
43 Comments
. Note: Burns Night is when Scotland’s most important bard, Robert Burns (1759-1796), is celebrated, usually with the recitation of Burns’ poems, the eating of haggis, and the drinking of whisky. It...
poem/Essmann/Gods existence/problem of good

A Poem on the Existence of God: ‘The Problem of Good’ by Jeffrey Essmann

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January 24, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
11 Comments
. The Problem of Good a Petrarchan sonnet If there’s (the armchair philosopher maintains) A God (most likely writing in his blog), Then why’s the world in such a dismal fog Of evil will and endless human...
poem/woodruff/wef/davos 2023

A Poem on the World Economic Forum’s Davos 2023, by Julian D. Woodruff

The Society
January 23, 2023
Culture, Music, Poetry
20 Comments
. WEF, Davos, ‘23—A Modern Reply after “Endless Pleasure, Endless Love”* Endless hooey, endless snow, We’re exposed to here below. Ever on their riches leaning, Our tormentors strew their lies; While...

“John Adams in Heaven,” from Legends of Liberty by Andrew Benson Brown

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January 22, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Epic, Poetry
18 Comments
. John Adams in Heaven John and Abigail Adams are being guided through heaven by John Milton. He takes them to a villa in the Elysian Fields, where they meet a famous Roman who shows them a vision of their...

‘Iambic Barktameter’ by Mark F. Stone

The Society
January 21, 2023
Culture, Humor, Poetry
31 Comments
. A Note on Iambic Barktameter I have an Australian Shepard named Sunny who loves poetry. I didn’t believe it at first, but she proved it to me. She showed me her copy of Poetry magazine and said, “Look...

‘Bats at Sunset’ and Other Poetry by Maxim D. Shrayer

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January 21, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
22 Comments
. Bats at Sunset The monster is rotund, vile, enormous, three-muzzled, and barking ---Vasily Trediakovsky, after Virgil The woods are lovely, dark, and deep ---Robert Frost Last night the bats were flying so...

‘The Calendar’ and Other Poetry by Jez Punter

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January 20, 2023
Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry
8 Comments
. The Calendar You are the festive dregs of January,you liven February with Valentine’s.You are the March that gives spring sanctuary,you are the splashing rain April confines.You entertain the shaken buds...

‘Moments from Dante’s Inferno’ by Paul Buchheit

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January 20, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Dante, Epic, Poetry
15 Comments
. Moments from Dante’s Inferno Prepared to travel, if the gods allowed, I saw the woods were dreary, dark as death. I chose to heed a blessing there endowed, before emerging spirits took a breath. And that...

‘Swimming with Dreams and Memory’ and Other Poetry by Pippa Kay

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January 19, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau
21 Comments
. Swimming with Dreams and Memory My childhood dreams and memories remain through adulthood and old age. My doll speaks. My toy car surfs that tidal wave, again. I’m still afraid of darkness, and the...
poem/spaceship explosion/UK failure

Poem on the Failed British Space Launch, by Jeff Eardley

The Society
January 18, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Science
16 Comments
. “Newquay, we have a problem” January 9, 2023 We’ve gathered in thousands to witness the blast-off, We’re sipping Champagne with our eyes full of stars. In five or ten years now, our guys will be...

‘Greta’s Smorgasbord of Hate’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko

The Society
January 18, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Satire
61 Comments
. Greta's Smorgasbord of Hate I love the pretty trees, the trees love me! They make me dance and sing, they make me shout And sulk and give loud speeches: blah, blah, blah How dare you feed on cow meat and...

‘Gloucester in July’ by Patricia Rogers Crozier

The Society
January 18, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
9 Comments
. Gloucester in July A thousand silent saints and angels Hewn from vertex, plane, and angle Raised by blow of mason’s hammer Raised from stone to watch the faithful Underneath the sinners stammer Pray and...
poetry/Christian/beatitude

‘Beatitude’ by Gregory Ross

The Society
January 17, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau
6 Comments
. Beatitude Be glad and smile, for they revile, The Truth they mock and put on trial, The Beauty they do not possess, The Good, they curse, and will not bless, For Christ foretold this world’s own bile. Sit...

‘El Pescado’ and Other Poetry by Monika Cooper

The Society
January 17, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
6 Comments
. El Pescado They gloat: the age of Pisces, it is over. They chant to call Aquarius’ forces in. In the deep labyrinths we sought the sign, The two-stroke fish, walls clammy, glittering. The old Mass book...
poem/annunciation/Christmas

‘The Christmas Story’ and Other Poetry by Lauren V. Leon

The Society
January 16, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
7 Comments
. The Christmas Story An angel of the Lord, Came forth with joyful news, Of Him Who is adored, Messiah of the Jews. The angel hailed the one, A Virgin pure and bright, Who chosen for the Son, Would crush the...
poem/Ouroboros/snake eating its own tail/civilization

‘Civilisations Forget the Taste of Their Own Tails’ by James Lucas

The Society
January 14, 2023
Culture, Poetry
13 Comments
. Civilisations Forget the Taste of Their Own Tails To see a friend possessed By the time’s ideological incantations, To see a world soon blessed By mob rule and its dark infatuations; To glimpse a...

‘Bingo Ladies’ by Mary Gardner

The Society
January 14, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
35 Comments
. Bingo Ladies Gray-haired gals meet twice a week, Have their luncheon with the clique At the Wendy’s in Coppell. After they have talked a spell Off to northwest part of Dallas To the Giant Bingo...
poem/medical assistance in dying/MAID

Poems on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
January 13, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Satire
29 Comments
. Out, out, brief candle! ---Macbeth I am black-dog blue and blinded by the glitzy gaze of stars. Lucent moons will never light __my skyless eye. I am frequently reminded of my fear __of future scars--- when...

‘For Sophie Pakaluk Barrows’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank

The Society
January 13, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
18 Comments
. For Sophie Pakaluk Barrows based on The Appalling Strangeness of the Mercy of God by Michael Pakaluk in pie quebrado meter Before God made her soul and mind, Before her parents’ genes entwined __To start...

A Poem On the Banning of the Word ‘Field’ by the University of Southern California, by Paul A. Freeman

The Society
January 12, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Satire
22 Comments
. On the Banning of the Word 'Field' by the University of Southern California’s School of Social Work See the related news story here. In Southern California they’ve declared that field’s a word to...
poem/French revolution/high school

‘For the French Revolution’ by Claire He

The Society
January 12, 2023
Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry
5 Comments
. For the French Revolution Oh, this shall tell the tale of France’s past: the revolution brought in ‘eighty nine, when Frenchmen took a stand and rose, amassed, against the king from ocean to the...

Poems on the Agony of Teenage Girls, by Jeff Kemper

The Society
January 12, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
18 Comments
. Be Gone an angry teenage daughter to her absconded mother What irritant incited you to leave And not come back while I was left to grieve? Was it the man you wed, the girl you bore, Your dispositions? Tell...

A Poem for January 6 Prisoners: ‘Letter from a DC Prison’ by Adam Wasem

The Society
January 10, 2023
Culture, Poetry
62 Comments
. Letter from a DC Prison We’d seen the evidence, the ballots dropped In loads of boxes trundled in late-night With ballot counting claimed to have been stopped; The windows blocked to hide observers’...
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  1. Margaret Coats on ‘Let Me Hold the Door’: A Poem by Frank RableJuly 26, 2025

    "Giving makes us gratified." What a great idea for your final line, Frank! In a gift economy, we all feel…

  2. Margaret Coats on ‘Of Cats and Cardinals’: A Cat Funeral Poem by Susan Jarvis BryantJuly 26, 2025

    Condolences to Mike and Susan on the passing of a pet purrsonality, some of whose antics many of us will…

  3. Margaret Coats on ‘One Dumb Mistake’: A Sestina by M.D. SkeenJuly 26, 2025

    This is a good sestina especially because the endwords are not simply repeated, but used in the slightly different senses…

  4. Linda Marie Hilton on The Society of Classical Poets 2025 Haiku CompetitionJuly 26, 2025

    below are my three offerings, the first was inspired by the painting by Hiroshige shown at the top of this…

  5. Mike Bryant on SCP Haiku Competition Featured on Radio New ZealandJuly 26, 2025

    Evan, great interview—and your haiku really captures the place and meaning of your in-laws’ fiftieth anniversary. I like your use…

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